Thursday, May 19, 2016

Morley Safer, R. I. P.

Morley Safer Dead at 84: Just days after retiring from 60 Minutes, Morley Safer is dead at age 84, reports CBS News. No word yet on a cause of death for Safer, who had worked on the show about half a century. His retirement, however, was attributed to unspecified health issues, notes CNN Money. Hat tip to Deb.

It's been a long time since I watched 60 MINUTES regularly--they seemed to've shifted to a heavy dose of infotainment quite some time ago--but Mr. Safer's work was always good and a pleasure to watch. He never underestimated his audience (unlike some of his colleagues--I'm looking at YOU, Scott "Let's spell it out again for the halfwits" Pelley) and was a man of sense, integrity and real honesty, and I will miss him.